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...that Mitterrand will reconsider his go-ahead for the plan. French Presidents, like kings and emperors before them, frequently exercise their power on behalf of the greater glory of Paris (and thereby their own image). Mitterrand seems clearly determined to follow in the tradition, pyramid and all. Says Emile Biasini, the civil servant who headed Mitterrand's task force on the project: "People are shocked now because they are always shocked by something new. But in ten years they would be shocked if we decided to move it." -By Wolf VonEckardt...
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